Cuando los extremos no se encuentran: un análisis de la movilidad social e igualdad de oportunidades en el Perú contemporáneo

Abstract

This paper analyses the current trends and patterns of social mobility and equality of opportunity in Peru. After proposing a class schema, we apply log-multiplicative and log linear models to a new data set of urban workers. We conclude that processes of relative mobility and equality of opportunity have been neutralised over time by the negative economic growth rates, as well as by a lack of change in economic and cultural relations. The resulting class structure in present-day Peru is one that combines significant “short distance” mobility with a lack of relative mobility between socially distant classes. Peruvian medium classes are then broadening at the same time than a huge and enduring polarization between socially-distant classes is still reproducing in the social structure.

Keywords

• Social Mobility
• Equality of Oportunity
• Urban Peru